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[[Starlight]]
Profile Joined December 2013
United States1578 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-14 03:09:34
January 13 2015 13:13 GMT
#1
What BW slang terms have you heard that you liked or at least were memorable, for whatever reason?

A few that've stuck in my head:

Bug Rancher – Derisive term for a Zerg player, lol

BBQ Drop – Stimmed firebat drop into a worker line (VERY effective, btw)

Fake n' Bake – Attacking somewhere else as a distraction so your ghost can get a nuke off

Trailer Park – Terran bases, lol ("I took out three of his trailer parks")

Stun Guns – Corsairs (strong resemblance)

Paper planes – Wraiths

'I gave him crabs' – mass Guardian attack

Cattlebruisers – BCs

Photo-op – Maelstrom

Gophers, prairie dogs – burrowed lings

User was warned for being hilarious
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES51084 Posts
January 13 2015 13:24 GMT
#2
Cowshed and cows - Ultralisk Cavern and Ultralisks

the only one I use
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intotheheart
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada33091 Posts
January 13 2015 13:26 GMT
#3
These are actually all pretty amazing.
kiss kiss fall in love
Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
January 13 2015 13:58 GMT
#4
I've always liked Cattlebruisers and paper planes.
#1 Great fan ~ // Khan // FlaSh // JangBi // EffOrt //
PhoenixVoid
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Canada32749 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-13 14:09:09
January 13 2015 14:06 GMT
#5
To "Maynard" workers. The act of moving workers from your main to your natural, supposedly popularized by the great foreign BW player Maynard.
I'm afraid of demented knife-wielding escaped lunatic libertarian zombie mutants
Probemicro
Profile Joined February 2014
3708 Posts
January 13 2015 14:06 GMT
#6
bulldog

Does "useful talent toi have" count
[[Starlight]]
Profile Joined December 2013
United States1578 Posts
January 13 2015 14:16 GMT
#7
On January 13 2015 23:06 PhoenixVoid wrote:
To "Maynard" workers. The act of moving workers from your main to your natural, supposedly popularized by the great foreign BW player Maynard.

Yup yup. Originally called The Maynard Transfer™. I remember when it first became a thing.

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jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6642 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-13 14:24:55
January 13 2015 14:24 GMT
#8
Jesus Boots (Zealot speed upgrade)

Don't think anyone except myself and a couple of friends use it lol.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions | aka Probert[PaiN] @ iccup / godlikeparagon @ twitch | my BW stream: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/jello_biafra
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-13 14:39:59
January 13 2015 14:39 GMT
#9
Used myself or heard by my friends.

- Lawn mower for carriers.
- Coliflower for photon canon.
- Mamoth for Ultralisk
- Luck bug for the reaver
- "those little dogs" for Zergling.
- "The gooy race" for Zergs.

And of course : "The thing when you can't black sheep wall" => Multiplayer.

I love my friends.
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
Probemicro
Profile Joined February 2014
3708 Posts
January 13 2015 14:45 GMT
#10
DDR terran
Dapper_Cad
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom964 Posts
January 13 2015 14:46 GMT
#11
Really cool list.
But he is never making short-term prediction, everyone of his prediction are based on fundenmentals, but he doesn't exactly know when it will happen... So using these kind of narrowed "who-is-right" empirical analysis makes little sense.
[[Starlight]]
Profile Joined December 2013
United States1578 Posts
January 13 2015 14:51 GMT
#12
Shortbus scarab
Seeing-eye scarab
Derp scarab
Fail scarab

All euphemisms for scarabs that whiff.

User was warned for being hilarious
pangolin123
Profile Joined July 2009
China25 Posts
January 13 2015 14:56 GMT
#13
it is a good day to die
lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
January 13 2015 15:08 GMT
#14
gosu depot

just goes to show the importantance squeezing every last bit of gas because of the mining AI
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Cele
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Germany4016 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-13 15:09:52
January 13 2015 15:09 GMT
#15
fantasy GG timing, when i play/obs with friends. I used to love the "pandabearguy" expression. Not sure if that counts.
Broodwar for life!
nanaoei
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
3358 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-13 15:17:00
January 13 2015 15:16 GMT
#16
Korean Handicap
When you need an extra player on the other side to balance out those BGH teams.

Probies
Because they're cute

Jangbang
Self descriptive

Man____ i.e: Manlots, Mangoons, Manstorms, Mandrops, Manscarab, Manly
To describe everything (P)Reach does

Prairie Dogging
Be very very quiet... Waiting for an opportune moment to spring the burrowed trap, or in real-life terms a fudge dragon.

Pimpest Play
Obligatory slang for the clutchest or coolest of tactics and plays.

"It's only fun when it hurts"
Some phrase spoken by Day9 about games in general. I use it to refer to watching low level play, which often produces the funniest storylines in what happens during a game.

and who could forget:
Rush
Zergling rush, zealot rush, Zerging it down, gangbanging one korean in BGH, No Rush 20, etc.
*@boesthius' FF7 nostalgia stream bomb* "we should work on a 'Final Progamer' fangame»whitera can be a protagonist---lastlie: "we save world and then defense it"
[[Starlight]]
Profile Joined December 2013
United States1578 Posts
January 13 2015 15:21 GMT
#17
On January 14 2015 00:08 lichter wrote:
gosu depot

just goes to show the importantance squeezing every last bit of gas because of the mining AI

Ooh, I haven't heard that one... what's that?


User was warned for being hilarious
PhoenixVoid
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Canada32749 Posts
January 13 2015 15:25 GMT
#18
On January 14 2015 00:21 [[Starlight]] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2015 00:08 lichter wrote:
gosu depot

just goes to show the importantance squeezing every last bit of gas because of the mining AI

Ooh, I haven't heard that one... what's that?



If you place a Supply Depot at a certain area near the Refinery it makes the SCVs path better to mine gas more efficiently.
I'm afraid of demented knife-wielding escaped lunatic libertarian zombie mutants
jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6642 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-13 15:30:01
January 13 2015 15:29 GMT
#19
On January 14 2015 00:25 PhoenixVoid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2015 00:21 [[Starlight]] wrote:
On January 14 2015 00:08 lichter wrote:
gosu depot

just goes to show the importantance squeezing every last bit of gas because of the mining AI

Ooh, I haven't heard that one... what's that?



If you place a Supply Depot at a certain area near the Refinery it makes the SCVs path better to mine gas more efficiently.

I remember a lot of players used to do this back in the day but I don't see it any more, I don't think it's necessary if the geyser is directly above or directly to the left of the CC, but placing a depot can speed it up when the geyser is in other positions.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions | aka Probert[PaiN] @ iccup / godlikeparagon @ twitch | my BW stream: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/jello_biafra
Cele
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Germany4016 Posts
January 13 2015 15:33 GMT
#20
"doing/performing an Idra" Canceling a Crucial building, concession shortly afterwards.
Broodwar for life!
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